The 100 Best Money Quotes Of All Time – Live A Meaningful Life

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Oh, how money influences us and everything around us! To quote the 1966 musical Carbaret, “money makes the world go around.” I have always been intrigued by the thoughts of philosophers, politicians, authors, poets, celebrities, laymen, economists, entrepreneurs, and others on the topic of money. In fact, as a teenager, I had a diary where I wrote down every nice-sounding quote I could find on money, investing, love, and more. Mind you, the internet was not yet “a thing,” so I had to put pen to paper so I could muse over the words of the wise and powerful!

Irrespective of what your ideas, biases, and sentiments are about money, the fact is that MONEY is IMPORTANT. However, it is not EVERYTHING! Below are some of the most memorable, interesting, and quirky things that men and women have said about money through the ages. Enjoy!

1. Never spend your money before you have earned it. — Thomas Jefferson

2. It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy. — George Lorimer

3. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work. — Robert Orben

4. Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves. — Zig Ziglar

5. Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. — William Arthur Ward

6. Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks – it says, “Goodbye.” — Frank Sinatra

7. A single idea — the sudden flash of a thought — may be worth a million dollars. — Robert Collier

8. Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. — Miguel de Cervantes

9. There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich. — Marlene Dietrich

10. When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. — Oscar Wilde

11. Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. Money is usually attracted, not pursued. — Jim Rohn

13. If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. — Edmund Burke

14. I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died. — Malcolm Forbes

15. Too many people spend money they haven’t earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like. — Will Rogers

16. Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think. — Ayn Rand

17. A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some. — Joe Moore

18. Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are. — James W. Frick

19. If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. — Benjamin Franklin

20. Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. — Brian Tracy

21. Many folks think they aren’t good at earning money, when what they don’t know is how to use it. — Frank A. Clark

61. You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it. — Tennessee Williams

62. Every day is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we’ve got 24 hours each. — Christopher Rice

63. Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn’t, pays it. — Albert Einstein

64. You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you. — Maya Angelou

65. Money is the best deodorant. — Elizabeth Taylor

66. Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow. — Thornton Wilder

67. He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all. — Eleanor Roosevelt

68. Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. — P.T. Barnum

69. More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. — Napoleon Hill

70. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. — Winston Churchill

71. If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone. — Benjamin Franklin

72. When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn’t any. — George Bernard Shaw

73. No man’s credit is ever as good as his money. — Edgar Watson Howe

74. Money doesn’t talk, it swears. — Bob Dylan

75. Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. — Epictetus

76. Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it. –Timothy Ferriss

77. Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories. — Ronald Reagan

78. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn

79. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket. — Will Rogers

80. Money: power at its most liquid. — Mason Cooley

81. A budget is telling your money where to go, instead of wondering where it went. — John C. Maxwell

82. Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises. — Aristotle